Obituary of Bernett Joel Jergenson Jr.

Mr. Bernett Joel “Bernie” or “Jergy” Jergenson, Jr. (United States Army, Retired), a resident of Ozark, died late Saturday night January 25, 2025, at Flowers Hospital in Dothan. He was 83 years old. A memorial service for Mr. Jergenson will be held 11:00 A.M. Friday, January 31, 2025, in the Chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark with Mr. Jimmy Owens officiating. Full Military Honors will be presented following the service. The family will receive friends at the funeral home in Ozark Friday from 10:00 A.M. until service time. Mr. Jergenson was born August 6, 1941 in Benson, Minnesota to the late Bernett Joel Jergenson, Sr. and Lillian Leona Smith Jergenson. He graduated from Benson Senior High School in 1959 where he was on the wrestling team and was the state champion in his weight class. In 1961 he joined the United States Army. He met his wife, Monique, in Paris while stationed in Orleans, France. Mr. Jergenson served as a Military Policeman and was a crew chief on the DHC-3 Otter with one tour in Vietnam. He served most of his military career at Fort Rucker, the Panama Canal Zone and Germany, retiring with twenty years of service. Following his military service, he worked for Civil Service as a heavy equipment mechanic and later worked as a Federal Game Warden. Bernie was a scuba diving instructor and an avid hunter, trapper and fisherman who loved nature. He was an avid pet owner who loved his fur baby, Bernie Jr. A devoted husband, he is survived by his wife of 61 years, Monique Kampf Jergenson of Ozark; one son, Mark Lee Jergenson of Pensacola; one sister, Judith Ann Edwards (Donald) of Benson, Minnesota; two brothers, Joel Jergenson (Sharon) of Willmar, Minnesota and Lee Roy Jergenson (Marilyn) of Lincoln, Nebraska. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in his memory to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Attn: Memorial Giving, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105; or to the Ozark-Dale County Humane Society, P. O. Box 2502, Ozark, Alabama 36361.